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Originally Posted by ace1914
Hmm. Maybe he's just the better candidate in some people's eyes. I promise, people don't vote as blindly as you might think.
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Actually, the issue is your definition of how I am thinking here. Most people will vote with their heads. You and I are on the same page there.
But if you think there isn't a significant number of people who are either voting for him because of his ethnicity or counting it hugely in his favor, then I don't know what to say about that. It's simply a huge factor for many people.
There are a lot of people who are at least partially inclined to vote for Obama because the media has made race such an overwhelming issue in our social consciousness that there is a public need to absolve. There are some people who view Obama as a racist-history cure all. These are mostly white people, because we are the race to which the racist stigma is mostly attached.
And that's on top of those members of the African-American race who will refuse to vote for a white man or would never vote for any white man over a black man, which is just as racist as the KKK fuckers doing the same on their end. In the end, I believe both of these groups have fallen off, that largely racism on either side has fallen off a lot. While race is certainly still an issue, it is clearly improved over how things were.
But all that means is that the "white guilt" vote becomes easily the largest race-based voting group (and the most critical to this election).